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monsterfurby
February 23rd, 2008, 10:42
First of all
My System (a modified Dell Inspiron XPS Notebook - upgraded RAM, downgraded CPU for heat reasons)
Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.00 GHz
1256 MB DDR2-RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (on Omega 3.8.442 Drivers)
Windows XP Pro SP2

I have a somewhat odd problem. I just installed PCSX2 v. 0.9.4 and tried to run Nobunaga's Ambition: Rise to Power. To my surprise, it worked very well (running at a consistent 30 fps). At that time, I had Opera (browser) running in the background.

Now for the strange part: I closed Opera, and suddenly the framerate dropped to a sluggish 9 fps with severe stuttering. Now, Opera is known for leaving behind a large trace in one's RAM, but even rebooting did not fix the problem - the game now runs on 9 to 11 fps. Since it worked before, I find this somewhat strange. Does anyone have an idea on what could be the cause? Any help would be appreciated!

Edit: Oh, one thing worth mentioning: having Opera running in the background of course does not solve the problem.
V1ncent
February 23rd, 2008, 11:00
Thats just co-incidence .You have anything else running in the background ?

Problems maybe:
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An always resume antivirus,RAM eating firewall,huge program recently installed,too much things at startup,heavily fragmented disks.
Sung
February 23rd, 2008, 15:59
Secret Tip from me, run Windows Media Player in Background, he opens a Secret CPU Progress programm, that will allow you to use 20% more CPU that is normaly saved for other programms.
Helped me getting about 10 FPS more
Kaizen
February 23rd, 2008, 17:23
Secret Tip from me, run Windows Media Player in Background, he opens a Secret CPU Progress programm, that will allow you to use 20% more CPU that is normaly saved for other programms.
Helped me getting about 10 FPS more

only for world of warcraft and it's overhyped, does jack s**t for my pcsx2
PA1N
February 23rd, 2008, 17:54
your game is """""""""!!!

before tenkaici 3 (50 fps) i playd virtua fighter 4 on 13


try other game

opera do nothing
wadibahi
February 25th, 2008, 10:25
I think 1st you closed all running application from task manager
Check This & reply
Kaizen
February 25th, 2008, 10:40
maybe it's just a coincidence?

sometimes i'll get lower fps than usual in pcsx2 with vista since
an sp1 upgrade and re-booting fixes it